An electromechanical item which accepts and systematically retains digital input data in such a manner as to facilitate the rapid recovery of stored information. The item may or may not consist of disk(s) some of which are removable, hard, removable disk packs, fixed disks, or removable flexible, each surface coated with a material susceptible to spot magnetization, integral writing, a drive motor and its mechanical linkage, and data translating heads for impressing on or removing from the disk surface data in digital form. the item is a component of an electronic computer. see also, magnetic drum, data storage; core memory unit.
Classification: Other storage units, nesoi
NSN 6110-01-535-0167
NSN 6685-00-225-3518
NSN 4140-01-295-8143
NSN 6685-01-082-8513
NSN 6240-00-828-6228
NSN 5960-00-553-7338
NSN 5990-00-491-1338
NSN 5985-00-891-3713
NSN 5920-00-149-0013
NSN 6220-01-309-9594
NSN 5855-00-118-8762
NSN 5935-01-401-5324